Titles Tagged “legal”

Troy Phelan, an eccentric elderly billionaire, commits suicide minutes after leaving his vast fortune to an illegitimate daughter, Rachel Lane, instead of his six children by three marriages. His lawyers are now tasked with protecting Troy's wishes as well as finding the heiress. Nate O'Riley, a high-powered litigation lawyer and now recovering alcoholic, is sent to Brazil, where Rachel is believed to be living as a missionary. While Nate is trying to find Rachel, Troy's family does everything in their power to contest the new will. They argue that although Troy was examined by three of the top psychiatrists in …

“Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.” - Carlos Marcello. Chicago Mobster Sam Giancana and his colorful and itinerant deputy Johnny Roselli sit atop an empire which controls unions, bribery, extortion, gambling, money-laundering, prostitution, racketeering and loan-sharking that envelopes most of the country, and includes the emerging casinos in Las Vegas and an especially lucrative partnership with the corrupt Batista regime in Cuba, in collaboration with soft-spoken Florida Godfather Santo Trafficante, Trafficante's close ally the brutal and savvy New Orleans kingpin Carlos Marcello, lecherous L.A. Don Jack Dragna, and the New York governing hierarchy, overseen by exiled Commission …

The saga of the once beloved former football hero, commercial pitchman, and film actor, on trial for the alleged murder of his ex-wife and her “friend”, the defense and prosecution figures, and the many peripheral characters who for a brief period were celebrities in their own right, as the case captivated the world and set off arguments about race, fame, money, justice, media, sex, domestic violence, corruption, and the law.

In the summer of 1976 “Big Enos” Burdette, a flamboyant aspiring Georgia politician, needs a vast quantity of beer for a rally in his honor, but the brand of beer he needs is west coast beer that at this time cannot be legally transported across the Mississippi, and at least one attempted shipment has already been intercepted by police. To get this job done, Burdette recruits modern day moonshiner Bo Darville, nicknamed Bandit for his previous exploits, for a hefty six-figure payment. Darville in turn recruits his pal Cledus Snow and his eighteen-wheeler for the job, entailing driving from Georgia …

In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Willie Traynor came to Clanton, Mississippi, and within a year found himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper. The town was picture perfect, until the brutal rape and murder of a young mother rocked the town and thrust Willie into the center of a storm. Daring to report the true horrors of the crime, Willie made as many friends as enemies, and over the next decade he sometimes would wonder how he got there in the first place. But he could never escape the crime that shattered his innocence or the criminal who had left an …